it's funny the locational differences in language. Don't you also say dooryard for driveway (where you park your car at home)

it's a driveway

oh ok...mayhaps that was even upper north.

I live near Pittsburgh with some of the heaviest strangest ways of saying words." Dahn-tawn" is down town..

and they don't clean up a house they rede up a house.

bizzare!

I've come to the conclusion that rede is a welsh derivitive. My great grandmother was Welsh and mom says shes used rede all the time.